Re: Upgrading laptop hard drive--how?

Alas, the column is no more. But I'm still flailing away here at the Globe,
banging out lots of news stories....thanks for the kind words.

It's an old USB 1.1 laptop. This oughta be...fun?


"Larry Weil" <kc1ih@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:kc1ih-52041C.23130322012006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <EvXAf.479$ie3.323@trndny09>,
> "Hiawatha Bray" <watha2020@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I have Windows XP installed on the old drive, and I don't have the disk.
>> I
>> want to move my current installation onto a larger laptop drive. I guess
>> I
>> need to image the old drive and copy it perfectly onto the new one.
>> Anybody
>> know how this is done? Thanks.
>
> I used Norton Ghost to make a backup for the old drive on a USB external
> hard drive, then I restored back to the new drive from that. The first
> startup on the new drive took a while until Windows found the driver for
> the new drive, then I restarted and everything was good. But, it helped
> even more to then defrag the new disk, using Norton Speed Disk, in
> order to place the system files on the first part of the disk.
>
> The only down side is since this laptop only has USB 1.1 ports, it took
> 14 hours each to backup and restore, for 11 GB of data. If your machine
> has USB 2.0 it should be much faster.
>
> BTW, I don¹t see your column in The Boston Globe as much any more. I
> always looked forward to seeing it most every Monday.
>
> --
> Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH


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